CAIR is coming to the defense of Marzieh Hashemi, a racist Islamist extremist and state-run TV correspondent, who is entirely controlled by the terrorist regime in Tehran. This comes same week @CR exposed 1 of their officials as a dedicated Hamas supporterconservativereview.com/news/cair-offi…

Issues w/ story:1) No documentary evidence for supposed directive is provided2) BuzzFeed sources are all 100% anonymous3) Michael Cohen is a serial liar4) It is not illegal to do business in Russia5) Moscow Trump Tower project never got off the ground

Columbia Journalism Review: "caught making stuff up in a 2002 Salon article, self-admittedly 'getting it completely wrong' ... & had his own memoir cancelled because of concerns over accuracy."archives.cjr.org/politics/jason…

Total delusion here. Stephens becomes unhinged and places himself in a dystopian state in which Moscow is a superpower. Putin's Russia might be an authoritarian state, but it is not close to the powerful force for Communism that was presented by the USSR.

Also, quite odd that he is picking a big fight with Amb. Grenell, who has done so much good work in encouraging our European allies to push back more against Moscow. Stephens should direct his fire at our Euro allies like France and Germany, which continue to cozy up to Putin.

China spends 3-4x more than Russia on annual defense. They are the main threat. Russia is a struggling state with stagnant economy, declining population, poor infrastructure, etc. Hardly an up and coming global rival. China is the big threat into the future.

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THREAD1) Let’s talk about Marzieh Hashemi, an anchor of #Iran’s state-run Press TV who has been recently arrested in the United States, and the regime’s FM @JZarif is very concerned.

This shows she is a high-value asset for Tehran & holds many secrets.

2) "... Marzieh Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin of New Orleans, was arrested after arriving at St. Louis Lambert Int'l Airport on Sunday. The broadcaster, citing her family, said Hashemi was taken into FBI custody and brought to the Washington area."cbsnews.com/news/iran-clai…

3) "U.S. Federal law allows the government to arrest and detain a witness if it can prove that their testimony is material to a criminal proceeding and that it cannot guarantee their presence through a subpoena."uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ira…

Israel has opposed the nuclear deal from the start because we said that rather than blocking Iran’s path to a bomb, the deal actually paved Iran’s path to an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs, and this within a few years’ time.

The removal of sanctions under the deal has already produced disastrous results. The deal didn’t push war further away, it actually brought it closer. The deal didn’t reduce Iran’s aggression, it dramatically increased it, and we see this across the entire Middle East.

#Iran: several thousand people gathered o the central market in the Arab city of #Ahwaz to protest against the Iranian regime and what they describe as "discriminating policies against the Arab people"

#Iran: the situation later turned violent after Iranian police tried to break up the Arab protest in #Ahwaz, using tear gas and rubber bullets on the people.

The protests are a response to insults being made towards the Arab people on Iranian TV Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

#Iran: the Arab city of #Ahwaz today. Women are facing off against the Iranian police as they protest the regime's discriminating policies Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos